Reviewing Random Films For Fun

April 13, 2015

The Mad Masters #MovieReview

Film 158 in the “1001 Films to See Before You Die” challenge is 1955’s “The Mad Masters”. Or as it is known in France, “Les Maitres Fous”. This short documentary is about the Hauka movement. This film is not for everyone. I just watched a dog get it’s throat slit and eaten as part of a sacrifice. They didn’t have to show us that but they did. They even drink the blood and sell the remaining blood as perfume. I have never wanted to vomit more when watching this. I never understood why the Hauka did what they did. Why are they being possessed to the point that their mouths are covered in saliva, blood and/or what looked like semen? Why is it a sin to have a relationship with a woman? Why do they wash their sins in gin? Nothing made any sense. For the love of God, do not watch this unless you really want to see men brutally murder animals because they are “possessed”. This film has put me off not wanting any lunch. If you have seen this film then let me know what you thought of it in the comments. Here is what I had to say while watching 1955’s “The Mad Masters”

Film – The Mad Masters (Les Maitres Fous)

Year – 1955

Director – Jean Rouch

Written by – Jean Rouch

Staring – Jean Rouch

IMDb Rating – 7/10

My Rating – Don’t watch unless you’re into animal cruelty

Length – 28 min

Genre – Documentary, Short

We start with a warning about this film’s violence

Not quite sure why is was necessary to put his Visa number in the opening credits

Reading

Priests requested this documentary be made?!?

Welcome to Accra

So… People steal cider?

Here’s a man herding cows

That man has wood

That man seems happy to be on camera before heading into the mines

On weekends we have parades for prostitutes

The Hauka’s head quarters are in a salt market

“The pretend to read the newspaper”

One day, the Hauka left Arccra to head into the jungle to find Union Jack

Don’t mind me, just took a piss in the bush

The new priest got his ass kicked

Part 2 of the ceremony it a public confession

“I have had sexual relations with a woman for two months” – That’s a sin?

Shout out to the old school Sunderland football shirt

Did they just kill a goat and eat it’s insides?

Part 2 of the ceremony is to wash all your sins in gin and goat blood

DON’T EAT THE DOG!!!!

Time to dance

They have whips made of truck fan belts and wooden guns to dance with

Gerba is back but isn’t possessed yet and is asked to leave

Everyone is freaking out

He just asked for fire so he can burn himself

Gerba has been possessed

What the hell is going on?

Why is everyone foaming at the mouth when they are possessed?

“I hear you, but I haven’t arrived yet”

The Queen of the Prostitutes is made a wife of The Priest…. just because